Do You Have A Great Idea? | Best Buy Back to Campus College Innovator Search | [CLOSED GIVEAWAY]

Do you have an idea but need a little help to get it off the ground? Best Buy wants to help!

Best Buy is on a national search to find, mentor and advance the next big innovators in the areas of technology, sustainability, education or related field. Best Buy is looking for consumers that have created a product, service or piece of software that may change the way we interact with the world around us. Winners will be chosen by an exciting line up of judges including Stephen Gillett, President of Best Buy Digital, Global Marketing & Strategy, and Tim Westergren, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Pandora.

To enter all you have to do is head to Best Buy’s Facebook page, submit a video of your innovations, and then you are eligible for one of four prizes totaling $100,000(official rules can be found here)!

What are you waiting for? Go make that video!!!

WIN IT:

THREE OurKidsMom readers are going to win a $30 Best Buy Gift Card!

This giveaway ended at 11:59 PM EST on August 24, 2012.

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I live on the third floor of an apartment complex and I have thought about making some extravagent contraption where I can have something to lower my little puppy down from our deck so he can go potty and then lift him back up! haha, but I am not sure how to go about doing so!

I do, tons of them, they all come to me before I go to sleep. I swear this is true! I come up with the concept, how it would be useful and practical and how to market it then when I wake up I can never remember what it was 🙁 My hubby says I must of been an inventor in a past life lol

I worked on a team and we worked to design the basic plans for a fully above ground mass transit system fueled buy a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell. Each Car would hold 16 passengers they are small because this was for a college campus and frequency of stops was more important than size and the campus was really really small

I worked on a team and we worked to design the basic plans for a fully above ground mass transit system fueled buy a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell. Each Car would hold 16 passengers they are small because this was for a college campus and frequency of stops was more important than size and the campus was really really small

I’m sure there are products that exist that function in this way, but I’ve never seen one… I would love to see an adapted cell phone that is specifically made for teens/adults with disabilities… Ease of use and functions made simple taken into account.

I have had a few good ideas for products only to find out that someone else had just started making them. There was one really great idea that I had back in the early 90s. I wrote to Lorne Michaels at Broadway Video and suggested that he put out some music videos from performances on SNL. The letter that I got back said that it would be too hard to get the rights to all the various artists. Well, apparently they worked that out enough to be able to put out whole seasons of the show.

Well, I had an idea for a dry erase board that allowed you to print off what was written on it or save it to a computer, but it turns out others beat me to the idea and the product is already for sale. Bummer!

While at school, I lived in a dorm, and we had to take our laundry to the laundry room, which could be a far walk. It was so hard to carry a heavy hamper full of clothes, so I thought that someone should make a hamper with wheels. I looked it up , and it’s already been invented though 🙁

I have thought of a couple of things, but then found there was a product already out 🙂 I’m sure i’ll think of more things once i have my baby (he’s due in 6 weeks) and a mom always is thinking of things to make life with a newborn easier!

When I was young and played baseball, I came up with an idea of an extra piece of catcher’s equipment that strapped to the back of legs to make crouching behind home plate more comfortable. I wish I had pursued it, because now lots of catchers use them.

A device that will beep that can be clipped onto keys, remote, ect. (anything you lose alot) that will have a “home base” where you can push a button to set off the beeps. (Kind of like with a cordless phone reciever)

I have an idea for an alternative teen magazine that doesn’t focus so much on beauty, having the perfect body, clothes etc. There are lots of other things teen girls would be interested in reading besides how much they need to improve their looks.

When I was little, I told my mom I they needed to make a way to split a garden hose pipe into more channels. Of course, I, myself didn’t market it, but someone did come out with it. I’m not sure when, but of course I didn’t know it existed at the time.

Since I have friends and family who are either hard of hearing or deaf, I had an idea that instead of a door bell that chimed I thought it would be great to have one that either lights up or have something like a flashing red light that would blink when someone is at the door.kat_emerick@yahoo.com

I am not very creative to think of wonderful innovations. The only thing that comes to mind is a product that would help scoop ice cream without waiting 5 to 10 minutes for it to soften up. We have our ice cream in the deep freezer and its a pain to scoop unless you have it set out for awhile. If there could be a product that could help you scoop ice cream the moment you take it out of the freezer that would be nice.

In the past, I have thought of an idea called ‘build a bra.’ Most of us women have two different cup sizes. I think it would be cool to have cup attachments where you can piece together and build your own bra. One cup piece for the left, one cup piece for the right, straps, and connecter hooks in the front.

Not really. I create stories, not products. But I did suggest at my work that they offer the software to individuals and not just businesses. They refused, saying people would have no need for it like businesses did. Well, the company is failing and on tv, there is an infomercial that advertises the very thing I suggested to individual people. Should have listened to me!

I work on a school bus. It would be great to have an automatic counter, so every time a child gets on and get off, it would keep track of it. We are always looking for kids left on the bus, especially sleeping children.